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music for guitar + computer by Ian Yeager
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fave it Free Jazz | Experimental
14 tracks | 51 minutes
Released Apr 2005
on Pax Recordings
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Melodies merge and collide into sparking electronic abstraction and dusky sonic detail. "Engaging vapor-like riffs.that sustain with enough depth and peculiarity to be complete." Eric Weddle, Signal to Noise
Editorial review
This album came out as quietly as the music it contains. The solo debut by a guitarist from the Bay area, Music for Guitar + Computer is disarmingly simple and effective. Ian Yeager combines gentle stripped-down melodies at the clear-tone electric guitar with delicate computer treatments that deconstruct these melodies into quiet glitchy stutters. The resulting music is soothing, slightly sad, and consistently beautiful if a little monotonous. Others, like Oren Ambarchi, Fennesz and Giuseppe Ielasi, have treated this path before, but in the course of these 51 minutes, Yeager manages to establish his individual voice, mostly because he avoids the first guitarist's accretive loops, the second's noisy layered textures and the third's lo-fi desolation. The computer is presented here as a stuttering, unreliable machine spitting out half chopped segments of melodies, making sudden leaps in volume, and occasionally falling silent for no reason. All these traits could be annoying, but they actually add a highly sympathetic level of (pseudo-)chance. Most importantly, the computer remains an accompanying instrument, multiplying and altering the voices of the guitar but never taking it hostage. The album is a bit too one-track-minded, though -- Yeager would have achieved the same results with only half of the 14 tracks included. That being said, maintaining the same mood for the whole duration of a CD has its good points and, in any case, Music for Guitar + Computer makes a strong solo debut. We'll just have to see what else Yeager has to propose with his next opus. ~ Fran?ois Couture, All Music Guide
Bio / Background
music for guitar + computer is Bay Area guitarist/composer/improvisor Ian Yeager's solo debut release. Gently hovering between composition and decomposition, Yeager thoughtfully explores and deconstructs his guitar over 14 tracks, forming a sparse and evocative set of theme and variation. Melodies merge and collide into sparking electronic abstraction and dusky sonic detail. Suffused with a quiet rigor and beauty, music for guitar + computer is ambient in the best possible sense, a compelling, architectural soundworld which engages but does not intrude.
Bio:
Ian Yeager, b. 1977. Born and raised in Bloomington Indiana, Ian Yeager began teaching himself guitar at age 11. After completing his undergraduate studies at Indiana University in Music and Audio Recording, Yeager moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, where he now lives and works.
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